[Corpora-List] Paper call/ICCL2009/Theme session

[sylvie hancil]

First paper call to a theme session at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) 2009, Berkeley.

Title of the theme session : « Sentence-final adverbials »
Organiser : Sylvie Hancil (University of Rouen)

Description of the theme session :

Sentence-final adverbials in English are traditionally associated with VP-oriented adjuncts, especially manner, time and space adverbials, whereas the presence of clause-oriented adverbials is said to be rare and even problematic in such a position. But the examination of recent spoken English corpora has shown that they are attested in various dialects of English, such as American English (see Barth-Weingarten (forthcoming)), American and Australian English (see Mulder & Thompson (forthcoming)), Southern British English and Geordie English (see Hancil (forthcoming)), to name a few. 
Even though it is still an emerging process, compared to the use of these particles in Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, this phenomenon is worth exploring since it contributes to discourse coherence and cohesion and it partakes of linguistic creativity in language.
The purpose of this theme session is to gather original research papers on the interrelation between sentence-final adverbials and cognitive linguistics in various types of language. 
A special attention will be devoted to the analysis of these adverbials in relation, but not exclusively, to the following topics :

- Grammaticalization theory 
- Information structure theory 
- Construction grammar
- Relevance theory
- Conversational analysis
- Iconicity
- Language contact
- Prosodic and phonetic features
- Sociolinguistic criteria

Submission procedure :

Please submit an abstract of 500 words max., references included in .doc format
 by 7 September 2008 at the following electronic address : smhttiki _AT_ hotmail.com
with the following information. The subject heading should be : Theme session/ICLC2009. The body of your email should include the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), the affiliation of the author(s), along with the contact email address.

References :

Barth-Weingarten, D. (forthcoming). « You never know but » : Prosodic and syntactic units in English conversational data. InLiSt.
Beeching, K. 2007. Social identity, salience and language change: The case of post-rhematic ‘quoi’. In W. Ayres-Bennet & M. Jones (eds.) The French Language and Questions of Identity. London: Legenda.
Blöndal, T. 2006. Dinner or coffee or … ? The interactive role of turn-final ‘edda’ (« or ») in Icelandic. Paper given at the ICCA, Helsinki, May 2006.
Erteschik-Shir, N. 2007. Information structure. The Syntax-Discourse Interface. Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Fischer, K. 2000. From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics: The Functional Polysemy of Discourse Particles. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin, New York.
Fischer, K. (ed.). 2007. Approaches to Discourse Particles. Studies in Pragmatics 1. Amsterdam : Elsevier.
Ford, C. E., Fox, B. A.  & S. A. Thompson. 2002. Constituency and the Grammar of Turn Increments. In C. E. Ford, B. A. Fox, & S. A. Thompson, (eds.), The Language of Turn and Sequence, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 14-38.
Fried, M. & J.-O. Östman. 2005. Construction Grammar and spoken language: the case of pragmatic particles. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (11). 1752-1778.
Gussenhoven, C. 2004. The Phonology of Tone and Intonation. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Hancil, S. (forthcoming). Sentence-final « but » in British English. In S. Hancil (ed.), The role of affect in discourse markers. Rouen : PURH.
Hartmann, K. 2003. Background matching in right node raising constructions. In The Interfaces, K. Schwabe & S. Winkler (eds.), Amsterdam : Benjamins. 121–151.
Hopper, P. 1987. Emergent grammar. BLS. 13. 139-57.
Kirsner, R. S. and V. J. van Heuven 1999. How Dutch Final Particles Constrain the Construal of Utterances: Experiment and etymology. In Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics, K. Van Hoek, A. A. Kibrik & L. Noordman (eds.). 165-183.
Kirsner, R.  S. & V. J. van Heuven 1996. Boundary tones and the semantics of the Dutch final particles hè, hoor, zeg and joh. Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996, C. Cremers & M. den Dikken (eds.). 133-145.
Lambrecht, K. 1994. Information structure and sentence form. A theory of topic, focus, and the mental representations of discourse referents. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, vol. 71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Maschler, Y. 2003. The Discourse Marker nu: Israeli Hebrew impatience in interaction. Text 23. 89-128.
Maschler, Y. & R. Estlein 2008. Stance-Taking in Hebrew Casual Conversation via be'emet (‘really, actually, indeed', lit. ‘in truth'). Discourse Studies 10(3). 283-316.
McCoy, S. 2001. Connecting Information and Discourse Structure Levels through « Kontrast »: Evidence from Colloquial Russian Particles -TO, ZHE, and VED. ESSLLI 2001 Workshop Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics. Helsinki. Paper online.
Mulder, J. & S. A. Thompson (forthcoming). The grammaticization of « but » as a final particle in English conversation. In R. Laury (ed.), Crosslinguistic studies of clause combining. Amsterdam : Benjamins.
Schneider, S. 2007.  Reduced parenthetical clauses in Romance languages : a pragmatic typology. In N. dehé & Y. Kavalova (eds.). Parentheticals. Amsterdam : Benjamins.
Traugott, E. C. & R. Dasher. 2002. Regularity in semantic change. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.








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